{"id":8726,"date":"2022-03-13T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/maria-de-bellido\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:03:38","slug":"maria-de-bellido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/maria-de-bellido\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda de Bellido"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Popular legend<\/b> tells the tale that Bail\u00e9n\u2019s heroine, born in Porcuna <\/b>and married to Bail\u00e9n born Luis Domingo Cobo Muela<\/b>, lived in the \u201cLas Eras\u201d street<\/b>, nowadays known as \u201cSebasti\u00e1n Elcano\u201d street<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa Culiancha<\/b>\u201d (Literally, The Wide Bottomed), nickname bestowed upon her due to her ample hips, just like the rest of the people of Bail\u00e9n was an active part in the battle of 1808<\/b>. They contributed an element that became increasingly scarce and necessary the longer the battle went on, water.<\/p>\n

Our protagonist showed steadiness and courage when, when she was offering water from her small jug to General Reding<\/b>, a bulled broke it. And, unperturbed, she picked up the broken pieces still holding some liquid to offer to the General, who praised her for her efforts.<\/p>\n

The 7th of March of 1809<\/b>, just eight months later, Mar\u00eda Bellido passed away, turning into the legend she is today.<\/p>\n

Bail\u00e9n honours her by keeping her memory alive. The street where she lived is now dedicated to such purpose<\/b>, where a plaque <\/b>stands on the front of the building that had once been her home, built on the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bail\u00e9n, containing the following inscription: \u201cFrom the workers of Bail\u00e9n to Mar\u00eda Bellido, embodiment of bravery and charity in the centenary of her heroic deed: 19th of July of 1808-1908.<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n

However, nowadays we cannot ensure her existence, as she may have been forged as homage to every water-bearing woman<\/b> that partook in the battle, carrying jugs of water to the Spanish troops. Meanwhile, the French troops<\/b> did not count with such resource, dying of thirst<\/b>, heat<\/b>, and the misfiring artillery<\/b> caused by the inability to cool it down due to the lack of water to spare for such purpose (We must account for the fact that they used gunpowder to light the ammunition of the weapons).  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Popular legend tells the tale that Bail\u00e9n\u2019s heroine, born in Porcuna and married to Bail\u00e9n born Luis Domingo Cobo Muela, lived in the \u201cLas Eras\u201d street, nowadays known as \u201cSebasti\u00e1n Elcano\u201d street. \u201cLa Culiancha\u201d (Literally, The Wide Bottomed), nickname bestowed upon her due to her ample hips, just like the rest of the people of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-bailen","category-architects-of-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}